Children, Families, and Public Policy in the 90s
Author: Richard Barnhorst
Publisher: Thompson Educational Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
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Families in Poverty
Author: Karen Seccombe
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoverty is a social problem and finding solutions requires us to look closely at our social institutions. This book brings together the most recent quantitative and qualitative data to examine the many dimensions of this problem in the United States.--[book cover].
Children and Families
Author: Paul Michael Garrett
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1447316193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years a number of child protection scandals have surfaced in which children—often from poor and marginalized communities—suffer violence, abuse, and social harm. In Children and Families, the contributors look at the impact of marketization on social work services in both Ireland and England in the context of such scandals. They argue that marketization has had a negative impact on social work policies and practices, reducing the quality and availability of services for vulnerable children and young people. Paul Michael Garrett is then joined by leading researchers from across the globe to examine evidence from a range of policy regimes that highlight marketization’s negative effects.
Women's Equality, Demography and Public Policies
Author: A. Heitlinger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1993-09-07
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0230374786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book assesses the comparability between policies promoting women's equality and the reversal of fertility decline. Based on comparative data from Canada, Australia, Britain, and to a more limited extent the USA, Alena Heitlinger examines the impact of major international instruments promoting women's equality, and national similarities and differences in women's policy machinery, provision for maternity and childcare, fiscal assistance for families with children, and the costs and benefits of fertility-related measures vis - vis immigration related measures.
A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 619
ISBN-13: 0309483980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Law and Families
Author: Helen Rhoades
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1351154222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume highlights important classic and contemporary works by law and society scholars who analyze the complex and often highly political relationship between law and families. Featuring authors from Australia, Canada, England and the United States, the volume looks at how socio-legal scholars think about families and the law, how law shapes family practices, the capacity of family law to deliver social justice and how family disputes are resolved. Topics such as law's role in recognizing spousal and parental relationships or promoting responsible behaviour or equality norms are covered and the relationship between law's assumptions and the lived realities of families is problematized.
Canadian Family Policies
Author: Maureen Baker
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780802077868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith poverty, unemployment, and one-parent families on the rise in most Western democracies, government assistance presents an increasingly urgent and complex problem. This is the first study to explore Canada's family policies in an international context. Maureen Baker looks at the successes and failures of social programs in other countries in search of solutions that might work in Canada. Baker has chosen seven industrialized countries for her comparative study: Australia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries experience social and economic strains similar to those felt in Canada, and though they share certain policy solutions, major differences in policy remain. Baker considers which of the policies in these countries are most effective in reducing poverty, enhancing family life, and improving the status of women, then applies her findings to the Canadian situation. Bringing together research and statistics from the fields of demography, political science, economics, sociology, women's studies, and social policy, this rich, multidisciplinary study provides a unique resource for anyone interested in Canadian family policy.
Meeting Needs in the 1990s
Author: Bill Callaghan
Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781872452265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild Care in the 1990s
Author: Alan Booth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317782488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together professionals from sociology, economics, psychology, and family studies, this volume presents papers from a symposium on child care that sought answers to each of the four questions listed in the table of contents. A lead speaker provided an answer, and discussants had a chance to critique the main presentation and set forth their own views. Each session also included a policy person to deal with issues from an applied perspective. The lead papers, review papers, and rejoinders constitute the contents of this volume. Interdisciplinary in scope, it deals with the central issue in a systematic way and attempts to present divergent points of view on each question. As such, it provides the reader with current information and a review of issues intended to provoke new ways of thinking about child care.
Changing Women, Changing History
Author: Diana Lynn Pedersen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780886292805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChanging Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.
